'''Memory Analysis''' is the science of using a [[Tools:Memory_Imaging|memory image]] to determine information about running programs, the [[operating system]], and the overall state of a computer. Because the analysis is highly dependent on the operating system, we have broken it into subpages:

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'''Memory Analysis''' is the science of using a [[Memory Imaging|memory image]] to determine information about running programs, the [[operating system]], and the overall state of a computer. Because the analysis is highly dependent on the operating system, it has been divded into the following pages:

* [[Windows Memory Analysis]]

* [[Windows Memory Analysis]]

* [[Linux Memory Analysis]]

* [[Linux Memory Analysis]]

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* [[FreeBSD Memory Analysis]]

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== OS-Independent Analysis ==

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At the IEEE Security and Privacy conference in May 2011, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt presented a novel system, [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~brendan/Virtuoso_Oakland.pdf Virtuoso], that was able to perform operating-system independent memory analysis. Using virtual machine introspection accompanied by a number of formal program analysis techniques, his system was able to monitor the machine-level instructions and behavior of application actions (listing processes, network connections, etc) and then automatically generate Volatility plugins that replicated this analysis.

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== Encryption Keys ==

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Various types of encryption keys can be extracted during memory analysis.

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* [[AESKeyFinder]] extracts 128-bit and 256-bit [[AES]] keys and [[RSAKeyFinder]] and private and public [[RSA]] keys from a memory dump [http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/code/].

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* [http://jessekornblum.com/tools/volatility/cryptoscan.py cryptoscan.py], which is a [[List of Volatility Plugins|plugin for the Volatility framework]], scans a memory image for [[TrueCrypt]] passphrases

Revision as of 06:26, 26 June 2013

Memory Analysis is the science of using a memory image to determine information about running programs, the operating system, and the overall state of a computer. Because the analysis is highly dependent on the operating system, it has been divded into the following pages:

Contents

OS-Independent Analysis

At the IEEE Security and Privacy conference in May 2011, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt presented a novel system, Virtuoso, that was able to perform operating-system independent memory analysis. Using virtual machine introspection accompanied by a number of formal program analysis techniques, his system was able to monitor the machine-level instructions and behavior of application actions (listing processes, network connections, etc) and then automatically generate Volatility plugins that replicated this analysis.

Encryption Keys

Various types of encryption keys can be extracted during memory analysis.